NB: Please RSVP to jukeane@sas.upenn.edu for this meeting if you plan to attend so that we can provide sufficient materials for all attendees.

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Capture the Flag (CTF) exercise. Come learn about how web applications are compromised by actually breaking one yourself. This hands on exercise will guide attendees through common web application vulnerabilities and their potential impact by allowing participants to utilize tools to test and attack a target web application in a controlled environment. The exercise will include a vulnerable virtual machine image and documentation on one of many possible routes to complete the exercise.

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This meeting will be lead by Justin Klein Keane, a veteran of web application capture the flag exercises and maintainer of the LAMPSecurity project on SourceForge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lampsecurity). This exercise will be released as part of the LAMPSecurity project after the meeting.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even though the Top Ten hasn't been updated since 2010, the vulnerabilities that are prevalent in the wild in 2012 still map directly to items on the list.

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Shannon Schriver and Garrett Fails, penetration testers for PwC, will be discussing the most successful web application vulnerabilities and attack vectors that they have used during client penetration tests in 2012. Topics will include local file inclusion, insecure administrative consoles (including JBoss and Tomcat), and WPAD man-in-the-middle browser vulnerabilities.

'''Synopsis:''' For years organizations have been mining and culling data warehouses to measure every layer of their business right down to the clickstream information of their web sites. These business intelligence tools have helped organizations identify points of poor product performance, highlighting areas of current and potential future demand, key performance indicators, etc. In the information security field we still tend to look at our information in silos. Dedicated engineers solely focused on web application security, network security, compliance and so on, all while bemoaning a lack of information and decision support.

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In this talk, Ed will cover some of the many sources of security data publicly available and how to apply them to add context to your security data and tools to help make more intelligent decisions. Ed also points out a number of ways to repurpose information and tools your company is already using in order to glean a clearer view into your security and the threats that may effect it.

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'''Bio:''' Ed Bellis is the CEO of HoneyApps Inc, a vulnerability management Software as a Service that centralizes, correlates, prioritizes and automates the entire stack of security vulnerabilities and remediation workflow. Prior to HoneyApps, Ed served as the Chief Information Security Officer for Orbitz, the well known online travel agency where he built and led the information security program and personnel for over 6 years. Ed has over 18 years experience in information security and technology.

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He is a frequent speaker at information security events across North America and Europe. Past talks have included venues such as IANS Security Forum, SaaScon, AppSec DC, BlackHat, CSO Perspectives, MIS Institute, and several others. Additionally, Ed is a contributing author to the book Beautiful Security by O’Reilly and a blogger on CSO Online.

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For a summary of the presentation please see http://www.madirish.net/justin/security-intelligence-philly-owasp-ed-bellis

Mr. Umadas is eager to establish his own niche in the security world where he will be the catalyst of some very major innovation. With his strong academics, proven real world experience, and never-say-no attitude; it is only a matter of time.

Mr. Umadas is eager to establish his own niche in the security world where he will be the catalyst of some very major innovation. With his strong academics, proven real world experience, and never-say-no attitude; it is only a matter of time.

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For a summary of this presentation please see http://www.madirish.net/security-tools/470

OWASP Philadelphia

funds to OWASP earmarked for Philadelphia. Click here to join the local chapter mailing list.

Participation

OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is and open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.

NB: Please RSVP to jukeane@sas.upenn.edu for this meeting if you plan to attend so that we can provide sufficient materials for all attendees.

Capture the Flag (CTF) exercise. Come learn about how web applications are compromised by actually breaking one yourself. This hands on exercise will guide attendees through common web application vulnerabilities and their potential impact by allowing participants to utilize tools to test and attack a target web application in a controlled environment. The exercise will include a vulnerable virtual machine image and documentation on one of many possible routes to complete the exercise.

This meeting will be lead by Justin Klein Keane, a veteran of web application capture the flag exercises and maintainer of the LAMPSecurity project on SourceForge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lampsecurity). This exercise will be released as part of the LAMPSecurity project after the meeting.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even though the Top Ten hasn't been updated since 2010, the vulnerabilities that are prevalent in the wild in 2012 still map directly to items on the list.

Shannon Schriver and Garrett Fails, penetration testers for PwC, will be discussing the most successful web application vulnerabilities and attack vectors that they have used during client penetration tests in 2012. Topics will include local file inclusion, insecure administrative consoles (including JBoss and Tomcat), and WPAD man-in-the-middle browser vulnerabilities.

Asset management is an ever present challenge for any IT organization,
and especially so for information security groups. Even more
challenging is data aggregation for intelligent security analysis (or
security intelligence). HECTOR is an effort by the University of
Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences to provide such a security
intelligence platform. Organizing assets, scanning for vulnerabilities
and profiles, correlating attacks on your network to services offered by
hosts, tracking changes, following remediation, and making information
available to multiple users via a web interface are all goals of HECTOR.
HECTOR leverages honeypot technology, darknet sensors, port scans,
vulnerability scans, intrusion detection systems, the powerful open
source MySQL database, and a PHP based web front end to provide security
intelligence to security practitioners.

HECTOR is an evolving, open source effort that attempts to leverage a wide variety of tools and
information sources to empower security practitioners with better
insights as well as to track and trend security related data. Come hear
about HECTOR in advance the official open source launch at the Educause
Security Professionals 2012 conference. Presentation material will
include a discussion of the philosophy behind HECTOR, the open source
technologies that make HECTOR work, as well as design challenges and
solutions. Even if you don't end up using HECTOR the presentation seeks
to spur new ideas and ways of thinking about asset management and
security data.

Previous Meeting: Monday June 20th, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Three lightning round presentations - Each presentation will be about 20 minutes long

Using PHP for Security - Justin C. Klein Keane

Perl for AppSec - Darian Anthony Patrick

What does your metadata say about your organization? A look at the open source tool Foca - Aaron Weaver

Thanks to Penn for hosting the OWASP event!

Directions:
The building entrance faces the intersection of 34th and Walnut
streets and the room is on the third floor. Folks should bring
identification and if the guard asks let him know you are coming to the OWASP
meeting.

Previous Meeting: Monday, May 23rd, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Synopsis: For years organizations have been mining and culling data warehouses to measure every layer of their business right down to the clickstream information of their web sites. These business intelligence tools have helped organizations identify points of poor product performance, highlighting areas of current and potential future demand, key performance indicators, etc. In the information security field we still tend to look at our information in silos. Dedicated engineers solely focused on web application security, network security, compliance and so on, all while bemoaning a lack of information and decision support.

In this talk, Ed will cover some of the many sources of security data publicly available and how to apply them to add context to your security data and tools to help make more intelligent decisions. Ed also points out a number of ways to repurpose information and tools your company is already using in order to glean a clearer view into your security and the threats that may effect it.

Bio: Ed Bellis is the CEO of HoneyApps Inc, a vulnerability management Software as a Service that centralizes, correlates, prioritizes and automates the entire stack of security vulnerabilities and remediation workflow. Prior to HoneyApps, Ed served as the Chief Information Security Officer for Orbitz, the well known online travel agency where he built and led the information security program and personnel for over 6 years. Ed has over 18 years experience in information security and technology.
He is a frequent speaker at information security events across North America and Europe. Past talks have included venues such as IANS Security Forum, SaaScon, AppSec DC, BlackHat, CSO Perspectives, MIS Institute, and several others. Additionally, Ed is a contributing author to the book Beautiful Security by O’Reilly and a blogger on CSO Online.

Directions:
The building entrance faces the intersection of 34th and Walnut
streets and the room is on the third floor. Folks should bring
identification and let the guard know they're coming for the OWASP
meeting.

The building entrance faces the intersection of 34th and Walnut
streets and the room is on the third floor. Folks should bring
identification and let the guard know they're coming for the OWASP
meeting.

Previous Meeting: Monday, March 7th, from 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Dave Wichers is a cofounder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aspect Security.

As a volunteer to OWASP, Dave is:

A member of the OWASP Board,

The OWASP Conferences Chair,

Project lead and coauthor of the OWASP Top 10,

Coauthor of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, and

Contributor to the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) project.

The building entrance faces the intersection of 34th and Walnut
streets and the room is on the third floor. Folks should bring
identification and let the guard know they're coming for the OWASP
meeting.

Previous Meeting: Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Look left, look right, look in your pocket, you probably glanced over a cellular phone. These devices are getting more and more pervasive in today's society. More importantly they are getting very powerful. This new market of software users have been the catalyst of the "app" boom. Everyone is jumping on board and developing mobile applications. This influx of mobile application development means there are a large number of mobile applications that get rushed to the market before they can be properly reviewed from a security standpoint. So guess what, more bugs for the taking!

In this talk we will lay out a few basic techniques that we use when we perform mobile application assessments, highlight possible pit falls that one should be aware and hopefully give those up and coming mobile application penetration testers a leg up on the competition.

Raj Umadas is a Consultant with the Intrepidus Group. Mr. Umadas graduated Summa Cum-Laude from The Polytechnic Institute of NYU with a BS in Computer Engineering. At NYU:Poly, Mr. Umadas pursued a highly expansive computer security curriculum. He is just as comfortable sniffing out a memory corruption bug as he is assessing the risk management decisions of large projects.

Coupled with Mr. Umadas' fresh academic outlook on security, he obtained a no-nonsense business sense of security while working in an Information Risk Management arm of a large investment bank. Corporate governance, segregation of duties, and SOX compliance were all daily concerns for Mr. Umadas.

Mr. Umadas is eager to establish his own niche in the security world where he will be the catalyst of some very major innovation. With his strong academics, proven real world experience, and never-say-no attitude; it is only a matter of time.

Security is often seen as a competing priority to good user experience, but the two are not diametrically opposed. Good user experience is essential to good security. Without ease of use, most people simply ignore or bypass security protections in systems. In order to craft effective security measures it is essential to take user experience into consideration. With the meteoric growth of web applications as a medium for service delivery it is critical to deploy good security measures. Web applications offer an always on, globally available target for attackers. Users need to be allies in the drive for application security, but far too often security measures are presented as onerous, time consuming, bothersome add-on's to web applications rather than seamlessly integrated, easy to use, user friendly features. In this talk I propose to explore some of the reasons why good security in web applications matters and how you can make security effective by making it easy to use.

Speaker: Justin Klein Keane

Bio: Justin C. Klein Keane has over 8 years of experience in information
security starting with his role as Editor in Chief of the Hack in the
Box e-zine. Currently Justin works as in Information Security
Specialist with the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and
Sciences' Information Security and Unix Systems group. Justin's past
work included several positions as a web application developer, often
utilizing PHP. Justin is a regular contributer to the Full-Disclosure
mailing list and is credited with dozens of vulnerability discoveries.
Justin holds several ethical hacking and penetration testing
certifications and regularly posts computer security related articles on
his website http://www.MadIrish.net.

Abstract: PHP provides an accessible, easy to use platform for developing dynamic
web applications. As the number of web based applications grow, so too
does the threat from external attackers. The open and global nature of
the web means that web applications are exposed to attack from around
the world around the clock. Automated web application vulnerability
scanning technology is still very much in its infancy, and unable to
identify complex vulnerabilities that could lead to complete server
compromise. While intrusion detection systems prove very valuable in
detecting attacks, the best way to prevent vulnerabilities is to engage
in active code review. There are many advantages of direct code review
over automated testing, from the ability to identify complex edge
scenario vulnerabilities to finding non-exploitable flaws and fixing
them proactively. Many vulnerabilities in PHP based web applications
are introduced with common misuse of the language or misunderstanding of
how functions can be safely utilized. By understanding the common ways
in which vulnerabilities are introduced into PHP code it becomes easy to
quickly and accurately review PHP code and identify problems. In
addition to common problems, PHP includes some obscure functionality
that can lead developers to unwittingly introduce vulnerabilities into
their applications. By understanding the security implications of some
common PHP functions, code reviewers can pinpoint the use of such
functions in code and inspect them to ensure safety.

Speaker: Justin Klein Keane

Bio: Justin C. Klein Keane has over 8 years of experience in information
security starting with his role as Editor in Chief of the Hack in the
Box e-zine. Currently Justin works as in Information Security
Specialist with the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and
Sciences' Information Security and Unix Systems group. Justin's past
work included several positions as a web application developer, often
utilizing PHP. Justin is a regular contributer to the Full-Disclosure
mailing list and is credited with dozens of vulnerability discoveries.
Justin holds several ethical hacking and penetration testing
certifications and regularly posts computer security related articles on
his website http://www.MadIrish.net.

Bio: Tom Tucker has over 25 years of experience within the enterprise hardware, software, network, and security market. As a Senior Systems Engineer at Cenzic, Tom works directly with customers to protect their Web applications from hacker attacks. Previously Tom's worked with Tier 1 and Tier 2 Network Service Providers such as BBN, GTE, AT&T, iPass, New Edge Networks and MegaPath Networks, designing firewall, VPN, WAN, LAN and Hosting solutions. Tom was also the Director of Intranet Engineering for Associates Information Services (now a part of Citigroup) implementing secure Internet technology solutions for both internal and external application delivery.

AccessIT Group is located in the 2000 Building (middle building) of the Valley
Forge Towers. The offices are located on the bottom floor of the
building. Parking is available in the front or rear of the building.

About the talk:
Attackers increasingly use malicious Flash programs, often in the form of banner ads, as initial infection vectors. Obfuscation techniques and multiple Flash virtual machines complicate this task of analyzing such threats. Come to learn insights, tools and techniques for reverse-engineering this category of browser malware.

Bio:
Lenny Zeltser leads the security consulting practice at Savvis. He is also a board of directors member at SANS Technology Institute, a SANS faculty member, and an incident handler at the Internet Storm Center. Lenny frequently speaks on information security and related business topics at conferences and private events, writes articles, and has co-authored several books. Lenny is one of the few individuals in the world who've earned the highly-regarded GIAC Security Expert (GSE) designation. He also holds the CISSP certification. Lenny has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan and a computer science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. You can stay in touch with him via http://twitter.com/lennyzeltser.

About the talk: Mark is looking to generate some interest in participating in OWASP projects. He will be speaking about projects that he is involved in and hoping to recruit folks who have time, energy and motivation to help out.

Bio: Mark Roxberry is a frequent contributor of research and code to OWASP. His credits include OWASP Testing Guide contributor and reviewer, the OWASP .NET Project Lead, the OWASP Report Generator Lead and just recently the OWASP Encrypted Syndication Lead. He is a Senior Consultant at Database Solutions in King of Prussia. Mark has a B.S. in Russian Technical Translation from the Pennsylvania State University and has the CEH and CISSP certificates hanging in his bunker where he tries to figure out how to hack into Skynet when it comes online.